Image Resources.. Lunar Orbiter..


Lunar Orbiter Full Frame Images


Description

This page contains Lunar Orbiter images assembled from the digital scans at the USGS Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project. The long, skinny Lunar Orbiter High Resolution images transmitted from orbit have traditionally been divided into three roughly rectangular segments, designated H1, H2, and H3 -- all exposed at the same instant. The present page reassembles the images into their original format by overlapping the segments with Photoshop. Each image was then loaded into LTVT and calibrated by locating on it two control points from the 1994 ULCN.

Interested users wishing to display these same frames in LTVT may download the present images and the accompanying calibration data. Even without downloading the images it's possible to ask LTVT to use the calibration data file. In that case a "Find Images" command will tell the user which Lunar Orbiter frames contain the point of interest even though the frame may not be available on the user's hard drive.

Calibration Data


LTVT calibrations for the three-frame composite images shown below:
(24 kb; 27 Sep 2008)

  • Note: this file specifies a default image download folder of "C:\LTVT\Lunar_Orbiter\". Unless you use the LTVT Image Grabber in its "Cal data + URL list mode", you will need to be manually edit the destination folder name to match the location of the folder to which the images are actually downloaded. Please use a text processor for this purpose.

The quality of the calibrations can be judged by loading the images into LTVT with this calibration data and then superimposing the complete set of 1994 ULCN control points.

URL List


The following list gives the web address of each image displayed below. It can be used in conjunction with the Image Grabber to automatically download local copies of them to the user's hard drive.


Downloadable Image Files


Each of the following images was concantenated from the smaller frames from the USGS Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project, or (in two instances) from the LPI's on-line copy of Bowker and Hughes. Note that the square thumbnail shows only the central section of the image. Most of the images are 16300 pixels wide by 4375 pixels tall. The dates are when the images were assembled into the present format.

If the present images are used in conjunction with the calibration data file, then the latter needs to be manually edited with a text processor to make the image directory (the default is "C:\Lunar_Orbiter\") correspond to the actual folder name in which the downloaded images are stored. The images will load significantly faster if they are converted to the bulkier Windows .BMP disk format. In that case, the file extensions in the calibration data file will also need to be edited from .jpg to .BMP (the image format does not alter the control point pixel locations, and hence does not alter the calibration).

Note: the pixel scale of these images is identical to that of the scanned images on the source websites. They are archived here in a "Quality 6" JPEG format, which may cause some slight loss of contrast for the finest details.

Composites of low resolution scans from the LPI website

  • iv_027_h1_h2_h3.jpg (29 Sep 2007, 558 kb) : external image iv_027_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • iv_038_h1_h2_h3.jpg (19 Oct 2007, 544 kb) : external image iv_038_h1_h2_h3.jpg

Composites of high resolution scans from the USGS website

  • 4005_h1_h2_h3.jpg (11 May 2007, 6688 kb) : external image 4005_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4006_h1_h2_h3.jpg (21 Sep 2007, 6992 kb) : external image 4006_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4009_h1_h2_h3.jpg (11 May 2007, 6671 kb) : external image 4009_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4011_h1_h2_h3.jpg (1 May 2007, 8660 kb) : external image 4011_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4018_h1_h2_h3.jpg (1 May 2007, 7366 kb) : external image 4018_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4044_h1_h2_h3.jpg (1 May 2007, 6243 kb) : external image 4044_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4052_h1_h2_h3.jpg (5 Jun 2008, 5280 kb) : external image 4052_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4053_h1_h2_h3.jpg (12 Sep 2007, 4569 kb) : external image 4053_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4055_h1_h2_h3.jpg (11 Sep 2007, 6063 kb) : external image 4055_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4058_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Sep 2007, 4807 kb) : external image 4058_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4059_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 5855 kb) : external image 4059_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4060_h1_h2_h3.jpg (12 Sep 2007, 5634 kb) : external image 4060_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4064_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 7325 kb) : external image 4064_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4065_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 3814 kb) : external image 4065_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4066_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Sep 2007, 4164 kb) : external image 4066_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4067_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Sep 2007, 5709 kb) : external image 4067_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4068_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Sep 2007, 4936 kb) : external image 4068_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4070_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Jun 2007, 6502 kb) : external image 4070_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4071_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Apr 2007, 6969 kb) : external image 4071_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4072_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Jul 2007, 6883 kb) : external image 4072_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4073_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Jul 2007, 7005 kb) : external image 4073_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4074_h1_h2_h3.jpg (13 Jun 2007, 7326 kb) : external image 4074_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4076_h1_h2_h3.jpg (25 Apr 2007, 7654 kb) : external image 4076_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4077_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Apr 2007, 6817 kb) : external image 4077_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4078_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Apr 2007, 6048 kb) : external image 4078_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4079_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Apr 2007, 7431 kb) : external image 4079_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4082_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Apr 2007, 6596 kb) : external image 4082_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4083_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Apr 2007, 7771 kb) : external image 4083_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4091_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Apr 2007, 6893 kb) : external image 4091_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4110_h1_h2_h3.jpg (31 May 2007, 6330 kb) : external image 4110_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4118_h1_h2_h3.jpg (29 Jun 2007, 6393 kb) : external image 4118_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4124_h1_h2_h3.jpg (14 May 2007, 7714 kb) : external image 4124_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4125_h1_h2_h3.jpg (31 May 2007, 7405 kb) : external image 4125_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4126_h1_h2_h3.jpg (17 May 2007, 6232 kb) : external image 4126_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4130_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Apr 2007, 4615 kb) : external image 4130_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4131_h1_h2_h3.jpg (16 May 2007, 6043 kb) : external image 4131_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4132_h1_h2_h3.jpg (16 May 2007, 7965 kb) : external image 4132_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4133_h1_h2_h3.jpg (17 May 2007, 7820 kb) : external image 4133_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4136_h1_h2_h3.jpg (16 Jun 2007, 6714 kb) : external image 4136_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4137_h1_h2_h3.jpg (16 Jun 2007, 7169 kb) : external image 4137_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4138_h1_h2_h3.jpg (3 Jul 2007, 6403 kb) : external image 4138_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4140_h1_h2_h3.jpg (2 Sep 2007, 7015 kb) : external image 4140_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4142_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Sep 2007, 7264 kb) : external image 4142_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4143_h1_h2_h3.jpg (22 Aug 2007, 7639 kb) : external image 4143_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4148_h1_h2_h3.jpg (19 May 2007, 7608 kb) : external image 4148_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4156_h1_h2_h3.jpg (1 Aug 2007, 7478 kb) : external image 4156_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4160_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Sep 2007, 7723 kb) : external image 4160_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4161_h1_h2_h3.jpg (31 May 2007, 7142 kb) : external image 4161_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4168_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Jul 2007, 7969 kb) : external image 4168_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4170_h1_h2_h3.jpg (16 Oct 2007, 7406 kb) : external image 4170_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4172_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Sep 2007, 7230 kb) : external image 4172_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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  • 4176_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Jun 2007, 5367 kb) : external image 4176_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4178_h1_h2_h3.jpg (24 Apr 2007, 5241 kb) : external image 4178_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4179_h1_h2_h3.jpg (16 Oct 2007, 5097 kb) : external image 4179_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4180_h1_h2_h3.jpg (26 Jul 2007, 7145 kb) : external image 4180_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4181_h1_h2_h3.jpg (10 Jun 2007, 8355 kb) : external image 4181_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4182_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Jul 2007, 7974 kb) : external image 4182_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4183_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 8533 kb) : external image 4183_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4184_h1_h2_h3.jpg (11 Sep 2007, 6944 kb) : external image 4184_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4186_h1_h2_h3.jpg (26 Jul 2007, 7799 kb) : external image 4186_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4187_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 8180 kb) : external image 4187_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4188_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Jul 2007, 7623 kb) : external image 4188_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4189_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 7774 kb) : external image 4189_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4190_h1_h2_h3.jpg (28 Jun 2007, 7085 kb) : external image 4190_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4191_h1_h2_h3.jpg (20 Sep 2007, 6972 kb) : external image 4191_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 4193_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Apr 2007, 6785 kb) : external image 4193_h1_h2_h3.jpg
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Composites of high resolution scans from the USGS HiRes website

  • vhr_3132_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Aug 2007, 7460 kb) : external image vhr_3132_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_3133_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Aug 2007, 8634 kb) : external image vhr_3133_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_3134_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Aug 2007, 7630 kb) : external image vhr_3134_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_3135_h1_h2_h3.jpg (30 Aug 2007, 8984 kb) : external image vhr_3135_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_3153_h1_h2_h3.jpg (25 Aug 2007, 9402 kb) : external image vhr_3153_h1_h2_h3.jpg

  • 5026_h1_h2_h3.jpg (22 Sep 2007, 5132 kb) : external image 5026_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • 5030_h1_h2_h3.jpg (22 Sep 2007, 5667 kb) : external image 5030_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_5070_h1_h2_h3.jpg (5 Sep 2007, 6479 kb) : external image vhr_5070_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_5075_h1_h2_h3.jpg (26 Aug 2007, 9811 kb) : external image vhr_5075_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_5076_h1_h2_h3.jpg (26 Aug 2007, 10421 kb) : external image vhr_5076_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_5078_h1_h2_h3.jpg (27 Aug 2007, 6320 kb) : external image vhr_5078_h1_h2_h3.jpg
  • vhr_5125_h1_h2_h3.jpg (17 Jul 2008, 6811 kb) : external image vhr_5125_h1_h2_h3.jpg




This page has been edited 23 times. The last modification was made by - JimMosher JimMosher on Sep 27, 2008 5:11 pm